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AND HEROKEE ADV OCATE. BY RUGGLES & HOWARD. ATT. ANT A AND MARIETTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 185o. VOL. VII. NO. 13. THE ATLANTA INTELLIGENCER Dally* Trl-Weekly and Weekly. BY RUGGLES & HOWARD. W. 13. RUGGLES,| Bdlt#rj T. C. HOWARD. J W H. HUNT, Associate Editor. terms of subscription Dally Intelligencer per annum, in advance, TH-Weekly, 5“ Weekly, “ H RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertising in the Daily Intelligencer will be inserted at the following rates per square of ten linesr The Newnan Post Office. We publish in another column a letter ; from the superintendent of the Atlanta and LaGrange Railroad, and the proceedings of ! a meeting held at Newnan, in reference , to the discontinuance of the Post Office in ' that place. We are happy to learn, however, that the difficulty has now been adjusted „ i and that the mails are left at that office, as $6.00 ' 4.00 heretofore. 2.00 One insertion Two “ Three, “ Four Five “ One week, 60 cts. One month. $5 00 $1 1 00 Two “ 8 00 25 Three “ 10 00 1 50 Four “ 12 00 1 75 Six “ 15 00 2 1)0 One year. 25 00 ! Democratic Meeting and Nomination At a meeting of the Democratic Anti- Know-Notliing party of Fulton county, held at the City Hall, August 16th. Jno. F. Mims was appointed Chairman, and J. G. W. Mills, Secretary. I All the Districts were represented, except Oak Grove, and on motion it was carried , that each militia District be entitled to six JES oc°c n upying1^ b u^hal7o?;Ue Z~- votes, except the Atlanta District, and that was authorized to cast twelve votes. It was further moved and adopted, that the dele gates from Caseys and Buckhead District, he entitled to cast the vote of Oak Grove District. The Delegates from the different Districts retired for the purpose of reporting business. On their return it was moved and carried that the body proceed to nominate candi dates for such by ballot, a majority of the tisoments occupying Um ^jr Advertisement* from transient persons must bo paid in advance. : I Local advertisements published at the usual • ratos. Obituary notices exceeding ten lines charg ed as advertisements. Announcing candidates tor • office, $5 00, to lie paid in advance. When advertisements arc ordered in all the is sues, Including Daily, Tri-Weekly and Weekly, 15 pur cent, will be added to the above rates, a IThe privilege of yearly advertisers is strictly limited to their own immediate nnd regular busi- DOBS. r er UOt CXCCC ' nS * votes to constitute an election. Whereupon ^Advertisement? not specified as to time will be the Chair appointed Meredith Collier, Enoch published till onlerod out, and charged at regular Morritj> an( j E N Calhoun, a committee to ^Advertisements inserted in the Weekly paper receive the votes and superintend the bal- valy will be charged at former rates. lotting, who after having discharged that duty, Reported that Jno. Collier, Esq., had THE WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER received 34 votes, PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MORNING. O « Term*—$2 00 per annum, invariably in advance I Capt. Allison Nelson . ■ i ( —- ■ , ■ ■ .= Whereupon the Chair declared John Collier SATURDAY, AUGUST, 18. duly nominated. On motion of S. B. Hoyt, duly nominated. Esq., the nomination was declared by Kausu Nebraska Bill improbable as it may seem at first thought ' meeting uuammous. that any considerable party in the South, 1 was moved and carried, 1 hat the body would be arrayed in opposition to the Kan ' pn-recd to the election of a candidate for Representative in the same manner and form. The balloting having gone through i with, the managers reported that I Allison Nelson received 28 votes. T. M. Darnall “ 13 “ J. I. Whitaker “ 1 “ Whereupon, the Chair announced that Al- [From the Augusta Constitutionalist.] Laud and Population. The Hon. Garnett Andrews is making himself ridiculous in the present canvass, by pretending to believe—possible he actu ally does believe—that there is actually danger to our country of an overcrowded population, and that we are in danger of being starved out by the hordes of immi grants pouring into our country, and fill ing up our desert and waste places. If the gentleman knows better, and uses this bug bear merely as an electioneering trick to frighten timid people, he is entiled to small respect as a candidate for the honorable ana dignified position to which he aspires. I risk-bora Citizens In the North- The attempt to prove that President Pierce ; and the advocates of the Kansas-Nebraska bill North are Free-Soilers, was the ne plus altra of Know Nothing impudence; but al most equal to this and in perfect keeping ; MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 20. A Cose tor the Removing Power. There was a Mass Meeting of the K. NY’s here last Friday^ as wc have before inform ed the country. It was not in all respects with it!* is* tbatotherTgrand ar^ment,tha°t j what we had expected, excepting of course foreigners who settle in the North in a mass the speaking. That was fully up to all that are opposed to slavery. This assertion, un-: we had apprehended, as mortal men could supported by any fact, or argument further not possibly have done worse, lhe crowd than “it is natural that it should be so,” &o. was not very great, as we have intimated in has been confidently made by every Know j aprevious number, and we give the following Nothing press and speaker in the country, reasons as we have heard them, first, the _ .We have all along believed it to be false, Farmers wore all busy pulling fodder, and If he does not know better, and is really a and 0Qr opinion wa8 based upon certain ; as that seems to be the only thing that K. statesmanship and intelligence. j eign-born citizens of this country have most- best to go on with the work. We well remember in our boyish days the j ly voted with the Democratic party has been Next, it has been suggested that although . . - f re ; g j lfc have been made especially S roach of a large comet towards the j one of the main charges brought against “Councils'’ may order their men to at-1 j n my £ XVO r, to the injury of the State’s in- ere of the earth s orbit gave rise to much them ; and that the Northern Democracy tend their public gatherings, it does not j terest and against all others.” have been the truest friends of Southern f 0 n 0W that they have any money to give | In attempting to reply to all this, I am right, i. equally well established. With thcm pa, eupeesos j hut ketl, aud „ain. ?«»£££ » ^fitSS^eaSTto these two tacts before them, who but a , i y? it has been communicated to us on au- ^ and haye fck interested ; n my welfare. Know Nothing would have ever charged . thority perfectly un-reliable that -o00 men J j j iave a disrelish for this, because I, my- Free Soilism on o#r Irish-born citizens? , were left by the train standing on the plat- i ggif^ am a chief topic. The circumstances rFrom the Augusta Coiirtitetinualirt.] ! would send an empty car from Atlanta, Letter from Mark a. cooper to Dr .Toei j or Chattanooga to Etowah, to take their sin- Brnniiaiu. gle car load as cheaply as it takes my oUU Etowah, Ga.. Aug. 7, 1$55. , carloads. It is true that the Road has fewer Dr. Joel Branham, Eatonton, Ga. — idle men to pay, and fewer ompty cars to Dear Sir: Your letter of the 4th instant ; move, on my account, than for any man s was received yesterday. You sav that you business who ships on it. It is true, that 1 are “surprised that‘some of tr.v friends, ship from Chattanooga from ono to two car aud Gov. Johnson’s also, have not given to loads of coal per day, the year round, when the country a true statement of the facts in the Road can take it, to be used in making relation to the alteration of freights on the iron, which goes back as backloading—and State Road. That various articles, in nl- yet, tiny man at Chattanooga or Atlanta, most all the Whig and Know-Nothing pa- could habitually ship corn from Chattanooga pers, charging bribery and corruption on me and Gov. Johnson, have been published, iegenious speculation as to its course and progress. It had already approached com paratively near the earth, being only a few hundred millions of miles off, and some timid people, like Judge Andrews or his dupes, began to figure out the possible re sults, in case the course of the comet was not diverted, or its momentum checked.— Some even went so far as to predict the ear ly burning up oftthp world There were Millerites in thoicTdays. To relieve their By it he failed to recognise the principle contended-for by me, and by this country, (for all parties joined me in it), and partial- S ’ adopted otMr. Wadley and Mr. Yonge. e abrogated the concession of Mr. Yonge in favor of milling by the way. In this, the Canasauga Mills, the Opelika Mills, the Adairsville Mills, the Lewis and Fields Mills, the Etowah Mills, the Denmead Mills and the Roswell Mills were all interested. He refused to ship my iron as back loading in the coal cars, at carload rates, as ordered ... ,....... - o- by Mr. Yonge. He refused to have plat- ,,1 Atlanta, forty-five miles further than my ] form cars fitted up for coal, as agreed, at the coal is carried, cheaper than I could ship | cost of the Road, according to Mr. Wadley s and arc used to the iniurv of my character, coal to Etowah. The coal cars are the ! written promise, but forced me to do it.at as a private citizen, and to the injury of cheapest platform cars, fitted up at my cos f> j “Y own cos *- He increased for a time, the Gov. Johnson’s election.” ‘ i and loaded at my cost, whilst the corn is | tax on coal to a ruinous xatc, and .*bro„ated Y'ou sav it is stated that my ‘ vote : taken in box cars, and loaded and unloaded Mr. Wadley s concession m favoi of coal and influence have been bought up, by rc- ! at the cost of the Road. The corn is worth, i used for manufacturing purposes, funding to me §6,000 : and that dismnuna- 1 per bushel, ten times the freight, whilst the j By hl8 *»iff, the[Present Superintendent - - - - - - • ■ " coal, at the place of shipment, can be laid j changed also tho classification of the Eto- do wn at less than 1 pay for the freight on it. ; wall freights, as made by Mr. Wadley, on Agan, I ship wheat to Ftowah, mill it, principles of fairness, justness and interest and re-ship it in the form of flour, and bran, to the State. By so doing, lie raised the The mills, at and below Atlanta, and the ' tax on all my freights atone sweep, an avc- Xew York speculator, ship it through, and , rage of 25 per cent, (in some instances that is the last uf it. 1 pay at this time, ! more) above former rates, when no corrcs- after'all the great favor shown, 10 cents per ponding advance on any one else, at any bushel, from Chattanooga to Etowah, 00 , other place was made. Here was the bc- Atlanta, half as far ' ginning of trouble. Here, in truth, was the A„d .tamg. to say, *. «***« ! “»<*«» | i 3X it! =****-«»» „„t i„ .gain,, now, at the very time when the ADOtujqp 30 at Griffin. I . J 11 0 ■ 1—. >— n - A 1 tide of the North has been turned against These rumors ought to be weighed and 1S jq rst> you are them, in face of the fact that Irish compa- their just value allowed them before sve not noticed these matters. “Those'who know j the wheat comes out of this car, it is ppaiuui “ a “t ka tYriiigs my wheat,‘(say 250 bushels j others,” but it was against the interests of surprised ” that I have per car load), gets *25 freight on the wheat. | the State, against me and in favor of others. apprehensions, scientific men investigated n j es }j ftTe been disbanded in the city of Boston make up our minds how bad a failure that my J a il y engagements will excuse me, on loaded with 75 bids, of tioui the subject, and we heard* distinguished J “ . .. - ^ nnwAr j UttaR i the ground that my time is otherwise fully cents per barrel to Atlanta, professoriff Astronomy gi^e toe rlsultTf | for being toe tools of toe slave power, at | Mass Meeting was. his calculations. He stated that according the time when Batchelder was murdered for j But this is the question: ought not^tue to present appearances, should the earth continue in its orbit, the great planetary system, of which the sun was the centre, pursue its grand march through toe heav ens, and the comet continue its revolutions, without any disturbing .causes, ft was possi ble toe earth and the comet would come in contact at toe end of two millions of years. “This,” said the Professor, “should relieve ground that my time is otherwise fully occupied: but, independent of that, my apology is this: This matter has been start- 5 bbls. of flour, which pays 20 rel to Atlanta, or §15 per car load. ‘ This added to the §25 on the wheat protecting our rights. Strange we say it is, j Governor to remove Maj. Cooper for failing that the Know-Nothings at the South should ; to take the Marietta crowd ? The K. N’s. make war on the foreign-born citizens upon j take the affirmative, the ground of their being anti-slavery, at j Melancholy! the same time that the Know-Nothings at barbers of this city have been dis- j out a look out, or inquiry for ir, they utter the North are attempting to strip them of _ ,i „ and publish these things, because the sir' their political privileges for the aid which j cussing a new tariff since the miniature ; , t ed for political effect, by persons who arc. charges me war, for moving a car load for - • ■ ’ • me, from Chattanooga to Atlanta: whilst in the other case, the Road receives and careless of what they say on suc-h occasions, and are more willing to effect the object de sired than to establish truth. In this case, truth stood at their threshold, and vet with- charges, for the car load of wheat carried for others, but §32 50—and if it were corn, it would he less. The only difference is, that the car stops at Etowah, and the load- sas Nebraska Bill, it cannot be denied tba there are .strong reasons for thinking that such is now the position of the Know Noth ing organization, lor, in the first, consis tency, that which all parties wish most to preserve, requires this of them. They stand openly in opposition to the administration, how can they do otherwise than oppose the characteristic measure of the administra tion? What will be thought of one who de nounces aparty, yet approves its acts? The position occupied by the new organization, must be one of the most inconceivable folly, or else opposition to the great measure of the last Congress. Openly to oppose the principles of the Kansas Nebraska Bill, be fore the people of the South, is w’ leaders of Know Yet it needs not rect tendenci stance in theii proved the, importance, the rightof question of ala' Democracy bad upontbia qr “ bad approved incumbent on SUeaoe, in a atnHdinto op party haa gone fhrther Nebruka Bill paaaed of the non-interfereaoe of question of slavery io the Philadelphia, vention, refused to as it must neeeaaerily proved (he removal of the mise line. It needa but fittie perceive that tho pi ‘ Nebraska Bill, and the Philadelphia Convention tagonism. One declares no right to big slavery in tnjj not so declare.. How ikit the Know Nothing party can the principles of the Nebraska'. There is other proof to a not approve of them. It with how much truth we that all the prominent oppoeers of the N< braska measures iu the South, are zealous advocates of the new party; of this lison Nelson was duly chosen the candidate for Representative, and on motion of Jesse C. Farrar, Esq., the nomination was declar ed unanimous. Ou motion, the Chair was requested to appoint a committee of six to inform these gentlemen of their nomination and request their acceptance. The Chairman appointed A. W. Jones, Samuel B. Hoyt, Richard Orme, Jesse Wood, Enoch Morris and A. llatterree that committee. Ou motion, it was carried that the prot ecting be published iu the ■Nothing papers of MIMS, airman. road- 1853. whatever fears we may indulge in for our remote posterity.” ' _ Not less idle are the fears Judge Andrews j a foothold in this country ?—but to believe , n j gestion of error and suppression of truth ing is shifted, and very often unloaded and Luc imcu,, , uww they have ffiven the South. Human gulla-1 Mass Meeting of the 18th. They now pro- k^riPnecessary to the end in new. This I loaded by my own teamsters. Whilst this us, gentlemen, of all personal apprehension, J . . i. nw ! pose as a simple act of justice to the craft w;ls done t 0 carr y out and accomplish the 1 13 true, tho Etowah freights arc postponed, “ comess,—else now , F _ „ r „ i n.- r k .. . and the through freights habitually taken would btowloate of toe threatned starvation to ourselves posterity. The very ge nius of the Rev- f. fi. Malthus would be startled at the novelty ,qf the that the lulity is enormous, “ r j Iq shave Know-Nothings, at the moderate ! results of political organizations, such as could Kuow-Notbiugwu have ever obtained twQ dimes ea f h ’_ Democrats half j History tells us of: the effects of which are assigned for that Wilson, Trumbull, Gardiper, Hale and the Massachusetts Legislature, men who hold that the chief end of our race is to op- known by those who study history or man’ nature. Of such I thought 1113' friends and fellow citizens were composed. 1 felt con tent in the hot pursuit of my daily voca tions, to trust to them that which was al ready in their keeping, and to some extent, in preference. I might run through the list of articles, until your patience would wear out. The country has no idea how unjust and untrue these fabulous tales are, and less idea how badly I have been treated. If it did know and understand it, justice It added one and a half cent tax per bushel on wheat shipped to my mills, but nothing on wheat shipped to Atlanta or below. It added fiye cents per barrel tax on all my rjr v»,o*,c ~ — . . thmuutnd maioritv '—their brilliant ready m their keeping, and to some extent, ^jjptoo.qWeTy rp .tim i franchise Free-Soil foreign-born citizens j ’ A) . ,j ; their* property—“character.” The dis rich DDats the stara find j hfoito is a morsel too monstrous to j success in North Ca °l > - ’ ' ; position sbo iwn to trifle with it. to disregard omuilifinn I w *“ v VTTO • ni 1 and Kentiiekv tmurder : r , , , .. , o , ° would be done me, freely and promptly How then is it said that discriminations 1 might again weary you imd exnaust myselL price price, as usual. The reason the new arrangement is, that the aforesaid Mass Meeting—the victories in Tennessee people ofthlgeoaciry'weije in.djinger ^ffam- ! pose African slavery, would attempt to dis- i where the Know SjOtJiin_. tri 1 p j ine, or being elbowed u,” 1 *•*’“ : "— n — 0 :1 c — : — u vast domain over which , . , stripes. His theory was, that population , Ke s^aUowei 1 Clemens included,) and Kentucky (murder * fc and trarnp i e ; t un j e r foot, by Arise accn- had a tendency to increase faster than (ft# j ‘ „ . „ , . - .. j and arson included, too,) have made it ab-; sat ions and libellous publicat. iis, is attrib- means of subsistence. But this theory is | It fcgd.heen generaRy bepeye^, solutelv necessary to go over a little more 1 utable to a depraved appetite, and a laxity advent of Know Nothing.^, that tip ^ j the face ip turning 0 ff a K. N. 1 of public morals, in this particular, and is Catholics of the North have @vsr been friend- j • for p t> At first vicw | not induced by the facts of the case. The lv to Southern interests. It was well-known fnanAupi . ; history of my life authorizes me to say that tLTtoeir vote was Ltfor those Presidents 1 Ai* looked reasonable enough, but upon | ifc is t0 J 0 late f or any ono to surmise that , . . t ... . , i . o. ,1 w '■ refleetion W6 * rfi not sure but their “disgust | suc [t mea ns as are alleged can control me. j candid upright man ot any party will say, most acceptable to the South. No paper, so ; , wild hunt ftfter office” has caused; The events of that life are known to those after knowing the truth. His only error, for as we knew, representing their opinions, , , . ke g0 q, adly lathered that it looks a who know me. They are authorities on | and so say lus prominent opponents, is, has been an advocate of Free-Soilism.— ; ,, ,• t t mourners” to 1 which contradiction might bo given to those I that lie did not do what was done long be- Thay had been frequently denounced at the httle like cr £ W ^?f “°Z t T m e^; injurious charges. Being thirteen years | fore and do,it in.regard to all the Etowah an koinB tLo friend of the slave now- : raise P nces on ^ s> J ' 1 retired from .public allairs, 1 considered that I freights. \V hat then, has lie done. I Nortii as tfrfi fnend Ot toe s av p “Soap," too, is about out with them, as ; safely rely on those who knew me, for now proceed to give you the facts, er. frier/ fact yfh*ch cam* toe Jcnowl- . Brownlow > s Dispatch can well attest, aud I contradiction. And although I know, by the i First. As stated before, I have striven ~ ~ ’ -i.- -- - • .... liaviltoliavetheprmciplerecoguized, whichis common sense wit: that a amount of especially ith back freights, makes §40, which the Road receives andL flour shipped to Atlanta, and nothing on the ’ ' — i—j 0 th er mills. Here was discrimination against me in favor of all mills, especially those from Atlantato Baltimore. On wheat from Cartersville to Etowah, I was taxed five cents per bushel. It is only two and a half miles, seven cents only was the charge, two cents difference, and I was told, in so many words, that the object was to prevent me from sending my wheat on the cars from Cartersville to Etowali. Here the power of the Road and State was in voked in favor of millers, at aud below Atlanta, against my interest, and against the interest of the. State, as avowed by Mr. Yonge. I was thus denied tho benefit of any proximity to the grain, by virtually refusing to me tho use of tho Road, whilst it increased thcdistauco from my flour mar ket, by the five cents additional tax on the flour. The same might be shown of my iron, ?o that 1 promptly Sooner wi Houston, and many others. Tliese'^menj pie of Newnan class are llayncr, Prentice, Bartlett, Taylor,. >zooner will things cotna rialft, imd toe what your ay- conceive his ese as contractors, I do know what jors on our part of .the Department, t has some mo- iter and -more & B p®0- againstus, our reasons sition wc are. It is a and the Department had no hand in formin Very truly," own to Id uuuoiuu, mill uuiwo. , lyyi , o. t .o. he again in pOSSSSSlOJi of have been influential leaders of the Knotv' mail facilities. Nothing organization, and have moulded it ^ have advised tlflBeDtof our Road ^ . thiB.evening of my aohons^n the premises, to suit their own peculiar views. Can it b§ . ^; )0U !d he disapprove dr my course. I believed that they have engrafted on it ; invite instructions from him. principles to which they were opposed, j You will oblige me by — Nay, more, do we not see that in pretermits ^ ie . people, should co; ting an expression of opinion as to ilic- right of Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery in the territories, the leaders of the Convention, had a direct reference to their own position on the Nebraska question ? Anti-Nebraskaism was the inception of this new party, and it has attended it to tho present time. Wherever it has dared to •peak out its sentiment the issue has been made upon this question—wherever the- Smith requested to not as^ Secretary, popular mind would not admit of an open opposition, th, attack lias been more insidi- T/ie Citizens oj Kctcnan and Vicinity, fit Public Meeting Assembled: ' On motion of Y. J. Long, Esq., Dr. A. B. Calhoun was called to the Chair, and R. J. now held in but meagre reapect, even in crowded Europe, at toe end of fifty years since its promulgation. Certainly, nothing has transpired on this continent to re vive it. We will not undertake to go elaborately into statistics, to culm the nerves of Know Nothing Malthusians of Georgia. we will state one one or two items for their pre sent relief from a speech lying convenient ly at hand. Mr. Dodge, of Iowa, made a speech in the Senate, in February, 1853, on the Homestead Bill, in which he stated that the United States Government held an absolute propri etary rtafet ip fourteen hundred millions of acres of land. He also gave the statistics of sales of public lands, from 1796 to 1847, and states that the sales of these lands, with toe exception of two years, 1835 and 1836, did not exceed an average of one and a half millions of acres per annum. Allowing liberally for the taking up of the publiclands by land warrants, since is sued to soldiers for military service, the statistics of which we cannot now readily quote, the above figures will tend to relieve us of apprehension for the fate of ourselves and our immediate posterity. What may become of our remote posterity, we must leave, as in the case of the ccmet, in the hands of a kind and aU-wise Providence. The question of immigration and emigra tion can be safely left to adjust itself, at least for the present, os regards subsistence. The vast wilasof toe United States of North America to toe Pacific Ocean—of Mexico and Central America, and the isles of the great Western ocean, will, in the all-wise dispensations of Providence, be, in time, settled with a civilized, thriving and indus trious population. But centuries must pass over the world before these magnificent re ts will boYoiriaved, It is pot yet tope to •Uenga that infinite Wisdom and Benefi ce, with having created a world too small maintain toe inhabitants thereof. As many millions of square miles of fertile irritories, on this continent, are occupied only by the wild beasts of the forest, or not less wud savage bands of roving Indians. By the last census, ft appears that the in 1850, 23,650,764 persons. The present population may now be considered, and is supposed now to be about three njiUi'pps more. The area of States and Territories is set down at 2,936,166 of square miles.— The population was, in 1850, 7:90 to the square mile, being less than 8 persons per square mile. The population of Massachusetts, per square mile, wa3 12t|, These data furnish the following result, taking round numbers for convenience. Supposing that no more territory will ever be annexed to the United States, the area of the United Stases, if populated as densely as top State of Massachusetts, would contain a population of 444,000,000. But even this large population would fall far short, in density, to that of England, or of Belgium. The former has a population J 382, and the latter of 388 to the sq< .mile. The United States, then, has te - ry enough to support a population not orbyfded than either of these coun between twelve and fifteen hundred of inhabitants—rather more, by a fe dred millions, than toe entire populal toe whole earth. Ought Judge Am calm his anxieties upon this subject, cease alarming toe fears of bis fellow- zens about the danger of being cramped i the size of their potatoe patches ? The superintendent of toe census esti mates that, in 1890, the population of the United States will probably be seventy mil lions (70,000,000,) and in 1950, one hun dred and twenty-five millions (125,000,000.) \These figures will afford a proximate means of estimating the time that must elapse before our people will become, like those, of 'England and Belgium, crowded for elbow room. are made especially' in my favor, against others, and injurious to the interests of the State? It cannot bo truly said, for the re verse is true. What then, you will ask, is it, that Gov. Johnson has done, at my instance and for my benefit, to create such a noise? I reply nothing, and you will reply nothing, as every Nothing Abo- litionist party at the North have commenced . r of cle ““ —*»«»s Without due re against these men and their religion. j ac ^ *be pre.^ Tba rpegut cry raised by the American ec ^ ,on - would perceive time this would be as likely to fall on the perpetrators of this wrong, as [ qq the sufferer, and that a just accord of ’n any but “•lie virtue would protect me. p u ^ i: "htened Republic, sentiment. would not So much surprise ” party against tha foreign-born citizens of the , Albert Gallatin. North has been to us a source of astonish- j There is a little incident in our political a free cm. rnent. We viewed as a kind of political su- history worth remembering here. We refer have confided in u.. icide—destroying our best friends and de- to the attempt made by Federalists under in reply to your e.vpre&sio livering ovrselves into the.hands of our en- the administration of-John Adams to ex- emies. elude Albert Gallatin from his seat in Con- Tbe charge of Freesoilism against this gress upon toe ground of his being a for- class was the only justification of this eigner. No man, with perhaps the excep- strange conduct, and it has been freely and , tion of Thomas Jefferson, had so siernlv falsely made. . and effectively opposed the encroachment of Subjoined, we publish an extract from a the general government as Mr. Gallatin.— latter addressed by the editor of a distin- j The former befog at that time Vice Presi-1 rianderoiis’and'irbeilous ; mid guished Irish American paper, to the edi- den the latter was left alone on the floor uf all that the publishers arc worth tors of the Intelligencer, in answer to oer- Gougress to sustain the interests of the Ho- the damages. I am udf 'In the tain inquiries of ours. The writer is well publican party. Mr. Gallatin was compe- ar ® n: V * hm e wronged no ono. Have pro- acquainted with the disposition of his coun- tent to the duty assigned him; liis thorough ' ™ n ° aad a ° s (; t ' t!c ifarm'aVat'i evil miUife will trymen on political questions. The state- 1 and extensive knowledge, unrivalled power | allow. I have a right' therefore. idaim ment agrees with all wo have ever heard of debate and untiring action, revived ftotp otbflr SOUICM, qn4 Wfl haye no heaita- i (be drooping energies of his party andopen- tion in believing them correct He says :-r- ! ed the way for the revolution of IS01 and “ Unscrupulous as tho organs of the the supremacy of the Democratic men and Know-Nothings have always shown them-' principles. Fearing these consequence?, selves to be, I could not have anticipated the Federalists, unable otherwise to coun teract the influence of their great opponent, attempted to exclude him from Congress, through an amendmont to the Constitution so as to require actual native citizenship "for eligibility to that body. Resolutions to this effeot passed the Legislatures of the New England States, but the movement was arrested at the South. any thing so utterly reckless as their state ments to toe effect that the foreigners who settle in the Southern Skates become allies to top Frper&pii party, ft is pxactly the re : verse, and you have to look over the files of the Tribune for a few years and you will find abundant testimony proving toe foot. That journal and Indeed the Free-Soil press generally, constantly re proach toe Irish for going in a mass for Slavery! This is so notorious that I am surprised that any man pretending to a at my silence. I now turn to the charges, and rep!}- thu they are all false and untrue, in every form and to every intent and purpo.- e. If true, they are ample grounds lor impeaching tho Governor, and indicting i«?: and that would be, in that event, the shortest and most appropriate mode of disposing of the Democratic candidate. If false, they arc C'jiv r it mal exemption from such assaults First, it is said that “Gov. Johnson has boughtup my influence and my vote, by re funding to me §6,000.” This - is unquali fiedly false, and any ono who knows what a Governor’s duties and powers are, knows it. Money paid by me on account of freight, is paid to the Treasurer of the Railroad : and is subject to the order of the Superinten dent, until it is paid into toe Slate Treasu ry, .whence it can bo taken out only by the Governor, pursuant to an appropriation by the Legislature. Not a dime has been refunded to me, directly or indirectly, not withstanding justice would require it.— Enough, then, is said about the *<>.b00 for There are two facts which arise here, wor- so as to furnish regular work and save run ning empty cars. Secondly, I contend, that that it was the interests of the State and Road, also, to re duce the rate on "Wheat shipped to be milled on the line of the Road, and shipped in Flour, since it could he done consistently with all fair charges for any wayside extra ! work done, and tiie receipts of the Road en- -~1. ; '''hat it Is not right to make .nVV ,, ’ -Nations against way thirdly, * ’■ eights. That such heavy discrim.. -osed to freights, in favor of Ihrougu , it was wrong in principle and op H _ the true policy and intcrast of the State, since the effect must be to check our growth and prosperity as a State, and build up for eign and exterior interests. These principles were conceded by Mr. Mitchell, and to some extent by Mr. Wad- Icy and Mr. Yonge. Mr. Mitchell admin istered them, as far as the means in hand and tho power enabled him. lie charged on Flour from Etowah to Atlanta ton cents per bill, by the car load, and fifteen cents on the single barrel, and other freights in proportion. Mr. Wadley succeeded him, and advanced freights to an excess, as we thought, lie put Flour from Etowah to Atlanta at twenty-live cents per barrel by the car load, and thirty cents por single barrel, and other freights in proportion, making large discriminations in favor of through freights, and great dissatisfaction prevailed. Mr. Yonge succeeded him, and after elab orating the principles here laid down, made a concession to the way freights for milling ou tho line of the Road, and in other re spects reduced the charges. lie reduced on Flour from Etowah to Atlanta, and placed it at twenty cents per barrel by the car load, and twenty-five cents per single bar- These rates were higher in propor- rel. On motion of Rev. E. D. McKinley, a Committe of seven was appointed to report ous, but still an attack. What public speak- I 8entimen ^ ° f er .’ newspaper, of Know-Nothing pro- • TKefollowing named gentlemen wereap- clivities has, during the present canvass, I pointed : ReV.’E. D. McKinly, Col. John u, approved of this measure ? Instead there- ! Morgan, Dr. W. W. Bruce, Lyman Grit* of, have we not seen on the part of these i Esq., Col. J. L. Calhoun, D. FY . dUpoii,™ J, ig „ T I Nebraska bill, biu an infinitude of sly at- preamble and resolutions^ which wereunani- tacks upon it and its supporters. Douglass j mously adopted: is everywhere, in the South, by the new , Wuereas, Our Post Office has been ab- party, denounced as a demagogue, and i ru P t b’ discontinued, and we have been, for Pierce as a Freesoiler. The repeal of the I deprived of our usual mail foeitfe Missouri compromise is called a foolish Voiced, That the Postmaster General bJ act, designed to perpetuate the Slavery ex- ( notified to restore them forthwith citement. The supporters of the Nebraska j Jtesolved, That if the Postmaster Genei___ bill held the Missoui restriction uuconsti- j was influenced to this flagitious outrage on, tutional, and for this reason advocated its ' "4p en f s ’ ’ .. , that he be respectfully requested to dismiss repeal. If the new party believe the same, | from th i s time forth, such meddlesome enfe why talk about the policy of tlie measure ? ! misaries. It is time that we should look well into ! Resolved, That toe^character of ojir Past * this matter. The main security of the ' Master and feUow citizen, Dr. B. D. Brews- i -Longmans of London have announced that South depends upon the recognition of the n .° judications for ldtegrity anfij the third and fourth volumes of the History rightof the territories to settle the Slavery 0 ur community. 8 * ° ** ° * U 1GS ’ m; of England, by Macaulay, are soon to be question within tlieir own boundaries. If j Resolved. That the proceedings of this this right is acceded to Congress, there will ; meeting be published in the Independent be no more slave States to be admitted or Rlade and Georgia Banner, and a copy of rejected. This, as Judge Warner has said 1 £ ese resolutions be forwarded to the Post is toe great question, and the Know-Noth- j Master General ; » a Washington ing party do not meet it. Will the South de- j ’ pend on the frail sincerity of the pretermis- | The Philadelphia grand Jury have found fc 81QU of an expression of opinion? or will true bills for riot, assault and battery against they trust so important a right in the hands j Passmore "Williamson and the five colored of those who are daily denouncing the ad- i men who were arrested for assisting the vocates of it. i slaves of Col. Wheeler to escape. e , Ph , i . 1 . os °P h y d ?* 8 uot regard nedigree. She did not receive Plato os a noble, but made him so. New Cotton.—Seventy three bales, of the new crop, arrived at New Orleans on the 10th inst. in one steamer the present. Secondly—It isaid “that discriminations . 0 0 f the 'Northern Stjitau “would 1 th Y notice; one is, that whenever Know- ; „ n freight have been made especially in my I sa**- “• •***« i- *w £*?«»**{• the w«h vote mlbe|ith^beena D appeodego of Federaliea,, nfSSSnV isYhollj ,,nm io in every tion than the charges on other Roads, in or FriS.S T I ^ ? ha8 In ***** mstan ce, met with | part and particle. So untrue is this, that | out of the State ; but as he conceded the Amffflffftn journal in too NTnriL ^ °FP° sltson the South. The Conven- j the very reverse is true, to wit: unjust and principle, the business men and the coun- cd by a Free Soilcr 8 *" (ion of Hartford and Philadelphia, have ; oppressive discriminations have hc-n made try generally became reconciled. Mr. both proved equally distasteful to the a ( f^syhcmoicahfreighls. (in which Lam Wadiey veryproperiy and wisely conceded Q ., A -X ... . . , almost exclusively interested) under Gov. m iavor ol btone Goal shipped for manufac- oouthern people. Failing to receive the Johnson’s administration, by an advance of ; taring purposes, in quantity. In view of twenty five per ecu', on precbMs . ah ■. when ‘ the interest the State had in the Iron busi- flth|u| Musa Meeting* ng Mass Meeting in this t to be a sad foil- tensive prepare draw a tremen- Texaa Election. Telegraphic n$ws to the Charleston pa- >ers announces the election of Pease, the Democratic candidate for Governor, in Tex as. The race has been a close one. Bell is elected to Congress. Macaulay’s History of England.—The forthcoming. The Convention. Y It will be seen by reference tc^toe pro ceedings of the Democratic Affl^jCnow- Notoing Convention held at the City Hall, yesterday, that Col. John Collier, our late ■tion could not the speakers’ ime of the Know Others are extrava- number as high as including, of coarse, residents BP ‘Atlanta. The speeches developed nothing new, being the vSaipe old sterreotyped assertions that Kno\(i Nothing orators have dealt out so libearlly dying the campaign. Mr. Hill’s remarks uwOFniainly a rehearsal of Zollicof- fer’s speech, the multitude of misrepresen tations and fallacies in which we shall soon take oc casion to expose. South Carolina Delegation. Mr. Boyce, member of Congress from South Carolina, had made a speech against toe new party. The entire delegation in Congress from that State now stand pledged against Know Nothingism. High Wages in Canada.—The Maple Leaf says that four dollars per day is held to be moderate harvest wages in Wentworth C. W. In York Co. also the farmers are parying California wages. Obituary.—Sam is dead. He sickened in Virg inia, got the fits in North Carolina, worked off the paroxysms in Kentucky, died in Tennessee, and was buried in Alabama. VI - ~ . c . , . Where le ZolllhoArr I able and efficient Senator, has been re-nomi- Jac kson County, Alabama, has given nated for the same office. Capt. A. NelsoV Winston, the Democratic candidate for received the nomination for the House of* ^Governor, 2100 majority. Shortridge re- Representatives. The Convention, we were notice was well attended, and the harmony prevailed in their delibera- The meeting could not have nomi- •trouger ticket. ceived about 100 votes. w Fzvkr.—The New York Corn- Advertiser says that thirty-three yean have elapsed since New York was viiited by yellow foyer. support of the South, every attempt hitherto made to fasten upon the country, the nar row and proscriptive policy of Know Noth ingism, has proved an abortion, resulting only in toe overthrow and disgrace of the party advocating it. The fate of this recent movement it is not difficult to foresee; defeat ed at the South, it will return to the place from whence it sprang; to merge itself into other and newer isvts, while we may point with pride to another instance of toe conser vatism of the slaveholding States. First Bale.—On Thursday last, toe first Bale of new cotton received in this city was brought to the Ware House of T. A. Harris Esq., from the plantation of Ewell Webb of Crawford Co. The quality middling fail- and sold to D.R. Rogers, at 11 cts. per lb. Macon Citizen, 18?A. The Pacific Rail Road of Missouri lias just been opened to Herman, and an excur sion train has been run over the road. [For the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.] Sam’s Death. The announcement of “Sam’s” death given in an obituary published in the At lanta Intelligencer, must be a source of sor row and lamentation to the heart-stricken friends, who will ever remember his name with disconsolalion and regret. It is stated that “He sickened in Virgin ia, got the fits in North Carolina, worked off the paroxisms in Kentucky, died in Tennessee and was buried in Alabama.” Let me add, that he is “gone to that bourne whence no traveller returns,” and left be 3 * hind an aching void, in the dark caverns of the K. N’s. toe world will never fill. The citizens generally are invited to attend the polls, on the first Monday in October next, at which place “Sam’s” funeral will be preached in the State of Georgia. Peace be to his manes. AN EX-KNOW NOTHING. no corresponding advance v, as made at any ness, he made a concession to the manufac- other point on the Road, or on any other per- 1 tnrevs of Iron, and by his directions thetar- son. And to this hour, this unjust and op- j iff on my Iron was fixed as it stood mainly pressive discrimination is kept up, and col- when Mr. l r ongo retired. Mr. Yonge how- lected out of me, by the Superintendent, on ever made this concession, to-wit: that as most Yf the articles shipped to me, and tole- the Coal cars were coming daily to Etowah rated by the Governor to my injury. with Coal, and must return empty unless Again, I say, that immediately after the j loaded with Iron, he allowed Iron as back- Superintendent, in accordance with the Go- loading, to ho shipped on them at car-load vernor’s wishes and his own promise, re- j rates. stored Mr. Yonge’s rates on certain articles, Thus matters stood at the time Governor and the principle adopted by him he ad- -Johnson was elected. Whatever discrimina- vancecl the rates from and to Chattanooga, j tions had been made, were made by Mr. and thereby deprives me of a principal part Wadley and Mr. Yonge; not in favor of me of the benefit intended by tlieir act, now so ! or any other man, bat in favor of any one complained of. Hence, it is true, that I j who was or might be engaged in the Mill- am novv paying more, pei hundred, to the ; ing or Iron business on the Road. Not.to fa- State and Road, than any man who ships vor any one ; not against the interests ofthe the same freights on ihe Road, according to ; State, but because that interest was promo- the work and labor best-., wed mi my freights by the Road. I have-never received, never asked, and do not desire any discrimination in my favor, or against others. What I ted by this policy, so said Mr. Wadley, so said Mr. Yonge, and so said anyone, who said anything. Thus matters stood when Gov. Johnson have asked, was equally demanded by me, j came into office. Up to this time, no one for all others, and any other place of busi- ] intimated cor harged Gov. Cobb, or Mr. ness, by the adoption of a rule applicable to I Wadley, or Mr. Yonge, with attempting to all whose business would cull for it—just on j buy me up, or with discriminating in my the principle recognized and adopted by I favor against others, and against tne inter- every wagoner to wit: that he can afford to \ ests of the State. And yet, all that is carry cheaper for one who furnishes freights now done in which lam benefitted, and to keep his team, at all times, employed ; ! a vast d il more, was done then, and done and still cheaper, if he will furnish back j by Me- . Wadley and Yonge, under Gov. loading—aud that it is his interest to do tliis. i Cobb. hy was not the same hue and cry I have striven hard to get this principle j made on, by the same editorial corps recognized for the benefit, not of myself cs- j who nc w raise it ? by the same politicians pecially, but of every man who has business ! who now proclaim it? If it was a crime, on the Road. I have signally failed, except | Gov. Johnson’s predecessors committed it. under Mr. Yonge’s administration; and it ! AU that Gov. Johnson has ever promised, is true, that whilst I have shipped over 24,- ' was to let me he as well off as when he 000 barrels of flour on tho Road iu one year came into office. All I ever asked of him or nearly a car load a day, any living man j was to apply the principles and acts of Mr. could ship a single barrel as cheap as I j Yonge’s administration in this respect, not could, or a cat load ao^focap as I shipped j to me only, but to all the way freights.— 24,000 barrels: notwflflfciding that I fur- And I did finally, and in writing, notify nished back loadinmpiMtOOO bushels of j him that I would not be satisfied with his wheat, 800 tons of irW>, aSfcl00,000 bushels j administration by a mere restoration of my of IWbne coal, bcsides'TjfJt meat, goods, I freights to Mr. Yonge’s tariff, hut I would wai-es and merchandise? "?foid 500 peo ple, men, women and children, to ride on the cars from time to time. Yes, notwith standing all this, it js true, that if my neigh bor, Dr. J. W. Lewis, or Messrs. Howard & Erwin, had a single car load of flour to ship, insist on the application of the principles contended for, as a permanent policy, for the good of the Cherokee country and the State at large. What was the result? It was this: After the present Superintendent came in —as all Superintendents think they must aud only one in twelve months, the Road I he published a tariff of taxes on Those effects were likely tubo produced by the ta riff of the present officer, which was advertised for the 1st of August, 1854. As soon as advised of it, I sought an interview with the Superintcuilent, and again and again strove, without success, to get the matter righted. lie seemed to fall Mr. Wadley’s classification a fiction, nnd there I stood in the midst of trouble. This was in dune of last year—1S54. The Governor heard of it, and vol untarily asked meat Dalton, June, 1S51, if it was true. I told him that it was, and that if suffered to go ou, would draw out of me yearly, from S5,- 0Q t 0 to §7,000 over any former taxes. lie said it. was wrong and unjust, and he would see to it.— Returning by Atlanta, as he has informed me, ho had a conference with the Superintendent and other friends, and the Superintendent then agreed to adjust the difficulty satisfactorily. Thu? it was left, the Uovernor thinking, as he says, that it war. or would be done. So it remained for II months, and until June 1855, during which time the tariff of August 1st, 1854, went into operation. 1 was taxed as above stated, and paid it from week t<* week, feeling the grievance surely. During this period, I certainly paid by reason of this discrim inating advance on my freights, from $5,01)0 n> $6,000 above the charges of Mr. Yonge. In my trouble, I did what I could, and said what 1 ought, until it becamea question whether I would submit quietly to this wrong and injury, to preserve what are called my political relations; or whether, in justice to my securities, who arc of all parties, i was not bound to stand up for justice and right, at the hazard of men’s opinions in regard to iny p“ litical views. I was a Democrat, and a supporter of Gov. Johnson. Viewing the permanent inte rest we have in a just policy on ibis Road, and per cciving the shuffling of men and issues, 1 saw mon- in the Road audits policy than in foreign issue.-, and I do yet. Avowing iny opinions in all issue . I resolved to strike fora wisp and sound uduiinir trillion of this Road. About this time accidcn brought me in communication wilh Gov. Johnson . " without seeking it pf him, lie unexpected!. 1 . * '• views in accordance with the nrinvi unu -*>d hD regrets that all had n l expressed in. ~ ni * the Bupcrintcmlcn i pies contended for, i,.. ’ J° aB > been done as agreed. Ho a... ’aving hadjust directed, as far as then eon. ratos of Mr. Yonge to be restored, and j . nothing further to ask of him beyond what lit- agreed to do, found no cause for opposition, hem e I determined to stand as I had stood, a supporter of the Democratic candidate. It is true, as I said, however, that the oppres- | sivo advance of 25 percent is still ou all articles. ! save iron, coal, wheat and Hour. For example, I now pay on flour in half bar- j rel sacks, 6U cents to Chattanooga from Etowah, a i distance of 90 miles. From Atlanta to Chattu- | nooga, a distance of 1H5 miles, a barrel of flour is j taken at tho same price. Is thcroany di?criminn- , tion in my favor in that ? From Etowah to Atlanta, on a barrel of flour, 1 now pay 25 cents, it is 45 miles. From Atlanta t«. Madison, 65 milos, the same barrel of flour pay- fifteen cents. To Augusta, it pays thirty cents, a distance of 160 miles. On the Macon & Western and Central Roads, the charges are the same.— You see, then, that I am now paying, according t» distance and pounds weight, about one hundred percent more than is paid by those ut aud below Atlanta. Finally, it is true, that whilst I pay annually to the Road ou account or freights, between $25,000 and $30,000, I am now charged and pay on all goods, wares and merchandise, groceries sugar, salt, coffee, bacon and corn, from Etowah to At lanta, tho very same tho merchants of Carters ville pay, and they are two miles and a half furth er off from Atlanta. In this case you see that the two and a half miles is not counted against them. But if Messrs. Howard A Erwin ship wheat from Cartersville to Atlanta, 47 miles, passing by Eto wah on the way they pay seven cents per bushel. If I ship wheat from Cartersville to Etowah, only- two and a half miles, I was charged five cents per bushel, whilst this is true, it is also true that the Road receives at Etowah Depot in ono year, about as much on account of freights from me, as is re ceived at Cartersville from everybody there. It is also true, according to the facts furnished me, that there are not more than three Depots on tho State Road which pay into its treasury, as much as l do, singUhanded. And it is known that in doing it, I eat no idle bread. I have labored here for twelve years, with all that I am, or have, or oould bring of men and means, and thus far the Road and the country arc the chief beneficiaries. And it now seems that a largo and respectable portion of the country de sire to see me robbed, as heretofore, to tho last hour of a laborious life, unjustly and unreasonably, of a fair portion of my fair gains. Perhaps they are not informed how much they and the country have profittedbymo during these twelve years, or they would feel ashamed of the unjust complaints and charges now being made. Look, sir, at the ac counts, and you will see that 1 have, during tho twelve years, on freights, paid to the Road over $150,000; a sum sufficient to buy tho property I have built up. Ihavosavcd to the country iu tho price of iron and castings sold, at least half a cent, per pound, or ten dollars per ton. On tho amount: sold in six years, this is equal to a gain to the coun try of $40,000. How much has been gained as a consequence of the venture I made in milling, by a change in tha :> - agricultural products, I leave the country to esti-’ mate. I know that millions would not balance the account. From my own pocket, saying nothing of what the people around me paid, I have paid to the State and eounty thousands of dollars for State and county tax. I have built and kept up the bridges on the public highways at my own cost, ortho cost of the business here, for twelve years. I have, by- request of the Inferior Court of my county, paid out my means to feed and clothe the public chari ties, and have never been refunded or paid adimn from the State or county for it all. Sir, if this country belonged to any good man, wise economist, he might double the value of it in ten years, by redneing the freight charges so as to> induce capital and people to stop on or near thei line of the Road and build np a continuous city, from Atlanta to Opelika. If the Road did not pay- at once, it would make its return annually, in more ways than one. The excessive charges on the Road have been the greatest drawback to the influx of both capital and population to this country. We have every- thingebe, and these weneed to make the country* what nature designed it, tha best in the world, and this State the first in the Union. Hoping that all that is for our good, and tha country’s good, may be done, and that Gov. John son may receive justice, I remain, MASK A. COOPER.